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...with a good job in a Manhattan publisher's office and the love of a fine girl, Tom Osborne learned a truth that has plagued many a small-towner: a young fellow may walk out on home, family and background, but that does not necessarily get them out of his system...
...miles of fences are down-pushed over by drifting sand. Mudballs form over the eyes of cattle, and wild geese fall dead with their bills and throats packed with dirt. At Field, N. Mex. (pop. 25), a dust storm halted the funeral of 73-year-old Mrs. Alice Towner, who had walked toward her mailbox in a previous storm, been swallowed by the blinding dust, wandered lost and helpless, and finally died in a nearby pasture. Oklahoma City's Engineer W. W. Baker estimated that one storm last week deposited 185,000 tons of dust on the city, enough...
...crammed with famed Broadway names and excerpts from hit shows could do wonders for radio. Stage-Struck (which is shopping for a sponsor) is an exciting guided tour of backstage Broadway, from casting office to dressing room. On his first assignment, Emcee Mike Wallace, smoothly exuding an out-of-towner's wonderment at the workings of the theater, used his tape recorder to get French Singer Lilo's story of her sudden stardom in Can-Can, veteran Hoofer Pat (Guys and Dolls) Rooney's advice to youngsters (first rule: "Don't whistle in the dressing room...
ELIZABETH TOWNER STAFFORD...
Imperfect World. In Baltimore, Chairman Gordon Fleet of the Maryland Game and Inland Fishing Commission and Lester Towner, member of the Maryland Board of Natural Resources, were each fined $25 for illegal hunting...